John Hurt Quotes

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know.

I think the two main tools actors have are the imagination of what other people have gone through, to connect with and through research, and there's one's own experience.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.